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ISBE participates in the AMBER Alert Task Force, which is a voluntary partnership among law enforcement agencies, broadcasters, transportation agencies and the wireless industry, to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child abduction cases. The goal of an AMBER Alert is to instantly galvanize the entire community to assist in the search for and the safe recovery of the child. AMBER Alerts are a tool for law enforcement to use during a child abduction investigation.

AMBER Alerts are broadcast through radio, television, road signs and all available technology referred to as the AMBER Alert Secondary Distribution Program. These broadcasts let law enforcement use the eyes and ears of the public to help quickly locate an abducted child.

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Posted July 1, 2015:
Important: Professional Educator Licenses (PEL) may be renewed and registered up to August 31 without any penalty. Unregistered licenses will lapse on September 1 and are invalid for employment and performance of services in an Illinois public or State-operated school or cooperative and a charter school. To reinstate a lapsed license the holder must pay a $500 penalty fee or show completion of 9 semester hours of coursework.

Sequestration - As part of the Budget Control Act (BCA) passed by Congress last year and because the “Super Committee” fiscal commission created by the BCA failed to propose $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction, we will enter into automatic sequestration, without further congressional action; in which OMB would establish an across the board cut for all nonexempt discretionary programs. The actual percentage and dollar cut will be calculated by OMB and ordered by the President on 1/2/2013. Read More

Tornado Preparedness Video. 15 minute video showing the need for schools to reconsider their tornado shelter areas in hallways that have exits to the outside. Includes a security surveillance camera video from Joplin school hit by a tornado on May 22, 2011.